Marcus du Sautoy Quotes
I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.Marcus du Sautoy
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler -
The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
Ice T -
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright -
I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
D. B. Sweeney -
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
Caleb Cushing -
'Vanity' means worthlessness.
Vanity
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
Barack Obama -
What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
Kate Millett -
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
Walter Lang -
I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
Zac Posen
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.
Naomi Watts -
As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
G. Willow Wilson -
Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
Dan Quisenberry -
I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.
Usher -
I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.
Osric Chau -
I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
Viggo Mortensen
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I rodeo-ed for nine years. That's my other life.
James Caan -
Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.
Andrew Carnegie -
The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations.
Clayton Christensen -
My Helmut Lang leather pants are my most treasured possession - I've worn them almost every day for two years, and they look good with everything.
Jessica Hart -
If I ever have a son, and if he wants to follow in my footsteps in Formula 1, my main responsibility will be to point out some of the negatives.
Jenson Button -
I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.
Marcus du Sautoy